Woman indicted by Barnstable grand jury on jewelry theft charges

A Plymouth woman who worked at a Hyannis jewelry store was indicted Friday by a Barnstable County grand jury on charges she stole and pawned around $30,800 worth of merchandise.

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By CAPE COD TIMES

Posted Jun. 3, 2014 at 2:00 AM
Updated Jun 3, 2014 at 6:28 AM

By CAPE COD TIMES

Posted Jun. 3, 2014 at 2:00 AM
Updated Jun 3, 2014 at 6:28 AM

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BARNSTABLE — A Plymouth woman who worked at a Hyannis jewelry store was indicted Friday by a Barnstable County grand jury on charges she stole and pawned around $30,800 worth of merchandise.

Carol McKinnon, 58, is facing charges of larceny pursuant to a single scheme and larceny by false pretense.

McKinnon was fired from Cape Cod Jewelers on Main Street in Hyannis in August after her employer "caught her hiding a bracelet that he told her was missing," according to Barnstable District Court records. McKinnon had been an employee there since November 2012.

After the store owner told police he suspected McKinnon had taken other items, an investigation allegedly uncovered 25 transactions for about $25,000 worth of jewelry at two pawn shops in Plymouth and Hyannis.

The owner of the Plymouth pawn shop told police McKinnon had come into the shop the month after she was fired, admitted what she had done and paid him $4,775 to cover the jewelry police had seized. McKinnon told the owner the money had come from her bank account, police said.

But when police confronted McKinnon, she said the money had come from more jewelry she had pawned for $5,000 at another pawn shop, according to police.

McKinnon told police she was sorry and that she'd stolen the jewelry as retaliation against the jewelry store owner for what she saw as his misdeeds, according to court records.